Plenary Speakers
Cecily Parks
Cecily Parks is the author of three poetry collections, including The Seeds, which is forthcoming from Alice James Books. Her poems appear in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Best American Poetry 2022, and elsewhere. She’s written about Emily Dickinson in reviews and essays that appear in The Emily Dickinson Journal, Boston Review, 21|19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth Century Archive, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University and lives in Austin.
Cecily Parks為三本詩集的作者，其中包括Alice James Books即將出版的The Seeds。 她的詩作出現在《紐約客》、《新共和周刊》、《2022 年最佳美國詩歌》等雜誌。 她在《艾蜜莉・荻瑾蓀雜誌》、《波士頓評論》、《21|19：十九世紀檔案館中的當代詩人》等刊物上都發表了有關艾蜜莉・荻瑾蓀的評論和文章。 她目前定居於奧斯汀，並於德州州立大學的藝術創作研究所任教。
Christine Gerhardt
Christine Gerhardtis Professor of American Studies at the University of Bamberg, Germany. She is the author of A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World (2014), winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Book Award. She is also the author of a monograph on the Reconstruction period in American novels (Rituale des Scheiterns: Die Reconstruction-Periode im US-amerikanischen Roman, 2003), editor of the Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century (2018), and co-editor of Environmental Imaginaries on the Move (2016) and Religion in the United States (2011). Her work has appeared in Profession, ESQ, the Emily Dickinson Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, Poroi, and Forum for Modern Language Studies.
Christine Gerhardt 目前於德國班貝格大學擔任美國研究教授。 她是A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World (2014) 的作者，曾榮獲CHOICE 傑出圖書獎。 而她亦是美國小說重建時期專著的作者（Rituale des Scheiterns: Die Reconstruction-Periode im US-amerikanischen Roman, 2003）、Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century（2018）的編輯以及Environmental Imaginaries on the Move（2016）、Religion in the United States （2011）的聯合編輯。 她的作品曾發表在《專業》、ESQ、《艾蜜莉・荻瑾蓀雜誌》、《密西西比州季刊》、Poroi和《當代語言研究論壇》。
“A Bird, came down the Walk –
He did not know I saw –
He bit an Angle Worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,”
— Emily Dickinson (c.1862)
Colleen Glenney Boggs
Prof. Dr. Colleen Glenney Boggs is the Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth (USA). A scholar of nineteenth-century American literature, she has particular expertise in the literatures of the American Civil War, animal studies, and literary theory. Her work on Emily Dickinson has appeared in her monographs Patriotism By Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863-1865 (Oxford UP, 2020), Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity (Columbia UP, 2013), and in other venues.
Colleen Glenney Boggs 目前於美國達特茅斯學院之人文學院擔任特聘教授。 作為十九世紀美國文學的學者，她在美國內戰文學、動物研究和文學理論上都有很深的造詣。 她在艾蜜莉・荻瑾蓀方面的研究發表於其專書Patriotism By Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863-1865 （牛津大學出版社，2020年）、Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity（哥倫比亞大學出版社，2013）及其他場合。
Renee Bergland
Renée Bergland teaches literature and writing at Simmons University. She is the author of Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science (April 2024). Her earlier books are Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics and The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects. With Gary Williams, she edited Philosophies of Sex: Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite.
Renée Bergland 於西蒙斯大学教授文學和寫作。她是Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science （2024年4月）的作者。她早期的著作包括Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics 和The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects。此外，她還與 Gary Williams一同編輯了Philosophies of Sex: Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite.。
Dickinson and Ecologies 